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A History of the County of Stafford
… and 3 bordars and a fourth team in demesne. The value, 40 s., was the same as it had been in 1066. 40 During the Middle … date the demesne arable had been inclosed for 50 years or more and that others were following the lords' example and … linseed oil, and there was a flax-oven near West Bromwich Hall in the 1770s. 70 When Arthur Young visited the parish in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Although amalgamation did not take place the report's proposals were adopted by each borough individually. West … in 1969. 86 In 1961 the corporation purchased Ingestre Hall near Stafford and established there a residential arts … the direction of Laetitia Frances Selwyn, sister of the bishop of Lichfield, the house also became a ladies' home and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… by the earlier 19th century was either the Bull's Head or the Swan. 22 The officers appointed by the court from at … quarter sessions ordered that the occupants of Sandwell Hall should thenceforth be free from liability for parish …
A History of the County of Stafford
… barony was divided between his sisters in 1323, one knight's fee in West Bromwich being assigned to his younger sister … the overlordship was said in 1432 to belong to the Sutton or Dudley family, 36 to whom the other half of the Dudley … advice how to collect the tax and rates due from Bromwich Hall and its demesne lands. 95 In 1720 the manor, with 1,596 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… West Bromwich Other estates OTHER ESTATES. Charlemont Hall stood on the west side of the present Charlemont … End. The estate was then divided: the house passed to Lowe's sister Sarah on condition that she continued to live there, … in the parish given for the obits of William Heyworth, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (d. 1447), John Ridell, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in the school for a short time and then met at Prince's Assembly Rooms on the corner of High Street and Lombard … at Greets Green in 1889. It moved into its first permanent hall in 1937 in Beeches Road. The building was compulsorily … built on the corner of Newton and Hamstead Roads in 1803 or 1804, but it was sold to the Congregationalists in 1823. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… backto-back. Normally there was one privy to every five or six houses. There were no arrangements for cleansing the … in Newton Road in 1910. 26 The present sewage works at Ray Hall (in the part of the borough added from Great Barr in … Main Drainage Authority in 1966. 27 In 1958 the council's first smoke control order came into force. 28 Progress in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… daughters were 'notable recusants' and that Sir William's association with recusants led to his 'neither caring for … and their son Thomas was brought up in his mother's religion. 62 The Riders, however, were the main Roman … at the back of the Riders' house, later known as Dunkirk Hall, was used as a chapel; there is also said to have been a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… wake, called the Gooseberry Wake and held at Cutler's End on the first Sunday in August, existed in the early … Samuel Adams, a music dealer, established the first public hall, St. George's Hall in Paradise Street, in 1859 in a … sick clubs, money clubs, clothes clubs, and clubs for land or furniture'. The oldest society was then 56 years old, but …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the present Lyndon Street and extended southeast to Mayer's Green. 63 East of the village there was a road running from … the road was widened in the late 19th century. 66 Dagger Hall at the junction of Dagger Lane and Salter's Lane occurs … elegant shop fronts give place to smoke-dried habitations, or dusty foundry walls, and parasols disappear in favour of …